July 7, 2025

Producing tangible business benefits from modern iPaaS solutions

When a historic UK-based retailer set out to modernize its IT environment, it was wrestling with systems that had grown organically for more than 175 years. Prior digital transformation efforts had resulted in a patchwork of hundreds of integration flows spanning cloud, on-premises systems, and third-party vendors, all communicating across multiple protocols.  The company needed…

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The AI Act is done. Here’s what will (and won’t) change

March 19, 2024
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. It’s official. After three years, the AI Act, the EU’s new sweeping AI law, jumped through its final bureaucratic hoop last week when the European Parliament voted to approve it. (You…

Decoding the TikTok ownership controversy

March 19, 2024
In the ever-evolving landscape of digital technology, a new controversy has emerged that has the potential to reshape the dynamics of social media ownership and usage. The center of this…

How AI taught Cassie the two-legged robot to run and jump

March 18, 2024
If you’ve watched Boston Dynamics’ slick videos of robots running, jumping and doing parkour, you might have the impression robots have learned to be amazingly agile. In fact, these robots are still coded by hand, and would struggle to deal with new obstacles they haven’t encountered before. However, a new method of teaching robots to…

The Download: legitimizing longevity science, and Harvard’s geoengineering U-turn

March 18, 2024
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology The quest to legitimize longevity medicine On a bright chilly day last December, a crowd of doctors and scientists gathered at a research institute atop a hill in Novato, California. Their goal is…

Harvard has halted its long-planned atmospheric geoengineering experiment

March 18, 2024
Harvard researchers have ceased a long-running effort to conduct a small geoengineering experiment in the stratosphere, following repeated delays and public criticism. In a university statement released on March 18, Frank Keutsch, the principal investigator on the project, said he is “no longer pursuing the experiment.” The basic concept behind solar geoengineering is that the…

Tech giant Fujitsu says it was hacked, warns of data breach

March 18, 2024

Multinational technology giant Fujitsu confirmed a cyberattack in a statement Friday, and warned that hackers may have stolen personal data and customer information. “We confirmed the presence of malware on multiple work computers at our company, and as a result of an internal investigation, we discovered that files containing personal information and customer information could […]

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The quest to legitimize longevity medicine

March 18, 2024
On a bright chilly day last December, a crowd of doctors and scientists gathered at a research institute atop a hill in Novato, California. It was the first time this particular group of healthy longevity specialists had met in person, and they had a lot to share. The group’s goal is to help people add…